MEDICAL PRACTITIONER SCHEME

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23301, 10 April 1941, Page 12

MEDICAL PRACTITIONER SCHEME

1 J >ir,—Your correspondent, "L.8.8.," ''■r'tes that only 32 doctors are availi'"le in Christchurch and surrounding Ijltricts. The telephone directory .iij'res 75, although I understand some ~; those doctors are on active service. i ■ apparently agrees with the offer of ' : \ \ British Medical Association to pro- ' i ' fie free medical service to persons 1 ,-"• I receipt of income of £250 per an- .■' \m or less. This means that a single '' atn or woman receiving that amount '' suld receive free medical treatment, ""I * lile a married man with six child- ', I , hj receiving £5 a week would have "' 1 r pay for treatment. ' I \ Would "L.L.8." suggest that the mar-''-"Afd man is more able to pay than the : i ; ftgle person? A man with a family, ■! d in receipt of even £lO a week ■, \ hnot afford to pay doctors' bills, or 1 ;'j y other bills, if he has an illness '' i six or 12 months' duration: he is 'C J titled to the insurance provided unlit r the social security scheme, includ- !;! e medical attention.—Yours, etc.. i-j.jj b G. W. DELL. [■{Lubject to the right of reply of ,' f 1 "Middle Class" this correspondence '>\\ is' now closed.—Ed.. "The Press."]